Summer 2019: Progress Report

The Pioneer Girl Project team is hard at work on its third book—Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts, which concentrates on Rose Wilder Lane’s editing of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography. 

July 2019 

"Source Material" and The Frontier Army

If money is the “mother’s milk” of politics, then “source material” is the same to the study of the frontier American army. Primary sources from the nineteenth century—letters, diaries, reminiscences, American Indian oral histories, maps, eyewitness accounts buried in public records, official government records, and photographs—serve as the foundation of the research carried out by the contributors to The Frontier Army.

June 2019